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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With virtually all filming done on location in Miami (at an average budget of $1.3 million per episode, compared with $1 million for a typical cop-show episode), the show goes to unusual lengths to find the right settings and props. "I found this house that was really perfect," says Roth, "but the color was sort of beige. The art department instantly painted the house gray for me. Even on feature films people try to deliver what is necessary but no more. At Miami Vice they start with what's necessary and go beyond...
Ulysses Grant sat on the porch and marched armies across his memory. He called them up through cocaine and morphine, through the pain in his throat, and into a perfect clarity of prose. He fought the war minutely all over again: Shiloh and Vicksburg, the slaughters of the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, where men were so sure of death that they pinned their names and addresses on their jackets for easy identification when they fell. And at last, the mythy set piece of Appomattox, where Lee came as the elegant last cavalier, and Grant, a shabby cigar stub...
Dentists are also profiting from America's enthusiasm for self-improvement: apparently, more people want perfect smiles to go with their Nautilus-toned bodies. In New York City, Dr. Barry Bloom has seen cosmetic dentistry rise to account for more than 70% of his practice. "It used to be only theater types coming in," he says. "Now it's secretaries, businessmen, accountants, policemen." Patients can choose from a variety of cosmetic procedures that include bleaching, which offers a temporary lightening of tooth stains, and the application of veneers, thin porcelain or acrylic facades that have been likened to false fingernails...
They were prototypes for Evelyn Waugh's "Bright Young People," the six sisters and a brother who provided a perfect historical metaphor for the fashionable confusions of their class and time. With apt symbolism, the Mitford girls paraded at smart London parties dressed as decadent Roman empresses. When the horses and hounds on their country estate bored them, the Mitfords traipsed abroad, treating Europe as their private playground. As the advancing shadow of World War II put a stop to the fun, they turned their patrician self-assurance to extremist politics. Nancy wrote the inside story in autobiographical novels, while...
This small gem of high-tech miniaturization represents the state of the art in satellite zapping. It is the antisatellite weapon (ASAT) that U.S. scientists have been trying to perfect for more than 25 years, ever since the Soviets launched Sputnik I in 1957 and set off a race to capture what Lyndon Johnson called the "high ground" of outer space...